. There are words in sentences—"South wins the second trump in dummy, discards a diamond on the ace of clubs, ruffs a club, takes the ace of diamonds and exits with the queen"—but if the reader is not an initiate, it's baffling.

, of the Emergency Committee for Israel—maybe seems to be that AIPAC (or a group that isn't AIPAC, taking offense on AIPAC's behalf?) regards the treaty as "far outside its area of concern." But mostly they're mad about the "bullying" involved in...writing a letter? And...making it public? So that...people...including people who disagree with it? Are able to...read the letter...and respond?

The Emergency Committee for Israel, Rubin writes, "would no doubt claim the actions of these two senators are exceptionally unusual, and would set a dangerous precedent." Because why? Because they are openly asking a foreign-policy lobbying group to lobby about foreign policy, by suggesting that a particular foreign-policy goal aligns with that group's interests?

The concepts and the emotions don't really seem to line up, at least not in an intelligible or audible register. The atmosphere is that of the commentary pieces in China Daily about the